Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days dragged by, monotonous and deadly, rain came and brought drinking water-and raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed...
Making It Stick. Wood veneer (plywood) planes are 25 years old. The first rickety-looking planes were flown in World War I-but mould and temperature changes ate away the casein (milk base) glues which held their veneers together. Not until the plastics industry evolved a phenolic resin glue with a permanent grip were strong wood airplanes possible...
...detail the civilian "Re-sponsibilities of Christian Citizens in War; time." They should "count it a privilege to share in such self-denials" as rationing entails, "accept ungrudgingly the greatly increased taxation," cut personal expenses hard "in order to invest the savings in Government bonds." They should "repudi-ate hoarding," and "give on a truly sacrificial level for the alleviation of the vast suffering arising from the war." The resolution was adopted by 60-odd members of the executive committee of the Council, representing its 24 constituent sects. It pointed out that "when other men are offering their lives...
...Doris, a pig-eyed nymphomaniac; Micky, "a child of few words and those, for the most part, foul," who developed a taste for whittling off the heads of domestic animals; and little Marlene, who liked to finish off the dogs' supper plates and who promptly restored all she ate all over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite...
...breakfast they ate "smoked blue-fish,, bread crisp like a cracker, chocolate and fruit." The words "spiritual" and "immoral" did not exist in their vocabulary. In lieu of the chameleon word "love" they talked (just a bit tediously) of apia (sexual desire) and ania (a high regard "justifying the physical"). They had no formal philosophy, little interest in abstract thought; they practiced a hedonism tempered with kindliness...